in his terrible picture of the frozen continent, where The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th’ effect of fire: Thither by harpy-footed Furies haled At certain revolutions all the damn’d Are brought; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft etherial warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix’d, and frozen round.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

They still had hopes that the trainer had for some reason taken out the horse for early exercise, but on ascending the knoll near the house, from which all the neighboring moors were visible, they not only could see no signs of the missing favorite, but they perceived something which warned them that they were in the presence of a tragedy.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

price 2 s. 6 d. , (continued monthly), Details of Gothic Architecture, Measured and drawn from existing examples, by J. K. COLLING, Architect.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Si minus molestiae circa ventriculum aut ventrem, in iis cerebrum primario afficitur, et curare oportet hunc affectum, per cibos flatus exortes, et bonae concoctionis, &c. raro cerebrum afficitur sine ventriculo.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Disappointment and sickness have hitherto held dominion over me; twin born with me, my would, was for ever enchained by the shall not, of these my tyrants.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nay rather, the god came forth from an eternal cause, or rather brought forth all things from everlasting, engendering by his divine will and with untold speed and unsurpassed power, from the invisible all things now visible in present time.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

ready, forward, earnest, eager; bent upon &c. (desirous) 865; predisposed, propense[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Much later, in the second century of our era, the grammarians restored the qu before u by analogy to those forms in the paradigm in which qu came before other vowels: as, sequuntur for secuntur by analogy to sequor , sequeris , sequitur , sequimur , sequimini , etc.; equus , equum , for ecus , ecum , by analogy to equī , equō , eque , equōrum , equīs , equōs .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Fees to judges, puny judges, clerks, prothonotaries, philisers, chirographers, under-clerks, proclamators, counsel, witnesses, jurymen, marshals, tipstaffs, criers, porters; for enrollings, exemplifications, bails, vouchers, returns, caveats, examinations, filings of words, entries, declarations, replications, recordats, nolle prosequies, certioraries, mittimuses, demurrers, special verdicts, informations, scire facias, supersedeas, habeas corpus, coach-hire, treating of witnesses, etc.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

And, for the same reason, he avoided treading on freshly excavated earth before the holes of a rabbit warren.
— from Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Alfred Wellesley Rees

A second fortress, either erected by Osman or captured by him, was put in care of Balaban, ‘his most faithful follower.’
— from The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403) by Herbert Adams Gibbons

I questioned the chief about the Great Bear and Marten Lakes, their distance from Fort Enterprise, etc., but his answers were so vague and unsatisfactory that they were not worth attention; his description of Bouleau's Route (which he said was the shortest and best and abundant in animals) was very defective though the relative points were sufficiently characteristic had we not possessed a better route.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

Rehearsal to-morrow is directly after breakfast; from "Eccles enters breathless" to the end.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

This interesting young female welcomed her visitor with a clammy “Come in,” and led the way up stairs, he following, in due dread of being for ever extinguished by an avalanche of unwashed keelers and kettles, which were unsteadily piled up on the landing, and which an incautious touch would have toppled over, and deluged the stairs with unknown sweet-smelling compounds, whose legitimate destination was the sewer.
— from The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

The following enlarged edition by Barcia is so clumsily thrown together that it is quite a relief to refer from it to this neat and well-arranged little manual.
— from A Bibliography of Bibliography; Or, a Handy Book About Books Which Relate to Books by Joseph Sabin

She hid the knowledge deep in her heart and covered it softly from every eye but her own; taking it out in the safe darkness sometimes to wonder over and adore in secret.
— from The Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

I feel it so hard to be suddenly torn away from every earthly bond, and some on earth I do so dearly love; and none more deserves that love than you do.
— from The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

Why, I'll go in rags, I'll work, slave—I'll hide myself from every eye but his, if that will make him love me better.
— from The Bacillus of Beauty: A Romance of To-day by Harriet Stark

You see, the first Eleanor ended by getting you into fairly hot water, and the second Eleanor, which is me, is in a fair way to do likewise.
— from The Rebellion of Margaret by Geraldine Mockler